Learning how to compost is one of the most environmentally friendly things around. Composting is simply a process of transforming your kitchen and yard waste into nutrient-rich soil. Composted soil is an optimal fertilizer for your yard, and helps with all gardening issues, including drainage, disease, and pest problems. It’s an easy, natural way to give life to the soil around your home in a natural way that doesn’t contaminate your soil with chemicals or poisons.

By composting, instead of just tossing your kitchen and yard waste into the trash, you’re substantially reducing the amount of garbage sent to the landfill, which in a real way helps cleanse the Earth. The world’s landfills are bursting at the seams, while the population keeps growing, and this is becoming a more and more critical issue.

Many families can reduce the garbage headed for the landfill by half or more, by composting all they can. If you recycling everything you can, there ends up not being much to send to the landfill in the first place. And the Earth and future generations thank you for that.

Believe it or not, by composting, you’re also actively reducing greenhouse gas emissions in what can be a significant amount. With composting, you’re not only reducing the amounts of greenhouse gasses created in the landfill, but composted soil actually pulls the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide out of the environment. It’s actually possible for a family who actively tills composted soil into the land around their home, to offset a year or more of the average American’s carbon emissions.

Think about what an impact it would make if every family composted instead of sending their waste to landfills. The soil around our homes would become healthy and nutrient-rich, the landfills would become controllable, and our greenhouse gas emissions would minimize too.

Learning how to compost is easy; there are plenty of resources on the net – a simple search can give you all of the information you need. Then, start with a simple compost bin or even make one yourself and get started with no investment but a little time.